say it: in-sti-TOO-shuh-nuh-lahyz
institutionalize is a verb meaning "cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution". It carries one recorded sense.
cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
“After the second episode, she had to be committed”
“he was committed to prison”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for institutionalize come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.